Meet our 2026 Guest Residency Program recipients
Meet our 2026 Guest Residency Program recipients
Arts Project Australia is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Guest Residency Program, supported by The Ian Potter Foundation.
The APA Guest Residency Program offers paid opportunities in an inspiring environment for these guest artists and curators to engage in creative dialogue with APA artists. The selection panel, made up of APA artists, staff, and independent assessors, reviewed a strong and highly competitive field of over 100 applications from artists and curators working across a wide range of disciplines. We thank all the applicants for their interest, time and passion.
Congratulations to the following artists and curators, we look forward to having you in the studio!
Introducing sam george, our first guest artist in residence
Beginning in June 2026, artist sam george will take up residence in the studio for a six-month period. sam george enjoys making, talking, thinking and occasionally feeling. Her interdisciplinary art practice spans sculpture, performance, drawing, writing and collaborations. Recent exhibitions include ohno again (sad song) at KING Artist-Run, Veronica Franco Vs Instagram at Gertrude Glasshouse and The Dugong Sublime at Buxton Contemporary. sam has an MFA from VCA and is a current PhD candidate at Monash University, researching how idle moments together contribute to art practice and are a significant part of life.
Introducing Nur Aishah Kenton and Sean Davey, our second guest artists in residence
Beginning November 2026, these creative partners will together undertake a 6-month residency in the studio. Nur Aishah and Sean are artists, photographers, and educators with a shared passion for community and socially engaged practice. Working primarily with analogue photography, collaboration and inclusion are at the heart of everything they do. Alongside their individual practices, Nur Aishah and Sean run Pacific Centre for Photographic Arts, delivering photography workshops throughout Australia and the Pacific.
Introducing André Shannon, our first guest curator on residence
André Shannon is a curator and artist-producer working across video, performance, criticism, and editing. They are known for curatorial programs involving artists from myriad communities, works that are synonymous with movements of radical imaginaries, through labour and love. Having worked internationally, their projects foreground peer-to-peer collaboration and genuine community building, especially through their production collective Garden Reflexxx. They are currently facilitating projects with artist Riana Head-Toussaint, co-creating a 2-day experimental project with APHIDS, and producing a large-scale commission for artist Bhenji Ra at ACMI.
